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April 23rd 2013
THOMSON REUTERS LAUNCHES CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY INDICES
Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices are a suite of benchmarks designed to measure the performance of companies with superior ratings for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The indices offer an objective and transparent, rules-based benchmarking solution for measuring ESG performance. Unlike the majority of ESG indices, the indices mirror the performance of major global benchmarks via companies that have substantially higher ESG ratings than the weighted average for such indices as the S&P 500 or MSCI EAFE.
Learn more about the Thomson Reuters Corporate Responsibility Indices.
January 30th 2013
THOMSON REUTERS TO LAUNCH COMPREHENSIVE LISTED REAL ESTATE BENCHMARK FOR ASIA PACIFIC REGION
Thomson Reuters, Global Property Research (GPR) and Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) announced a collaboration to shortly develop a family of regional real estate indices - designed specifically to be the most comprehensive listed real estate benchmark available for the Asia Pacific region. The new family of real estate indices is based on the total return of Asia Pacific property stocks, weighted by free-float market capitalization, in a way that represents the return characteristics of the overall Asia Pacific property stock sector.
Learn more about the Thomson Reuters/GPR/APREA Composite Index family.
October 22nd 2012
THOMSON REUTERS LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST INVESTABLE VENTURE CAPITAL INDEX
Thomson Reuters Indices has launched a family of Venture Capital Indices focused on the US market and based on company level valuations. The indices complement the index industry's efforts to provide performance benchmarks for the venture capital funded universe by offering the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index, the first investable venture capital index available for licensing.
Learn more about the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Indices.
September 18th 2012
THOMSON REUTERS LAUNCHES NEW GLOBAL ISLAMIC INDEX TO MONITOR SUKUK MARKET
The Thomson Reuters Global Sukuk Index is an independent and transparent benchmark for investors seeking exposure to sukuk (Shariah-compliant) fixed-income investments, to be used to monitor the performance of the sukuk market. The Global Sukuk Index may also serve to increase secondary market trading in this growing asset class and facilitate cross-market relative value trading among different asset classes.
Learn more about the Thomson Reuters Global Sukuk Index.
June 28th 2012
NEW FUNDAMENTALLY BASED INDICES OFFER OUTPERFORMANCE AND LOWERED VOLATILITY
The Thomson Reuters/ Sabrient Sensible Growth Indices utilize Sabrient's experience of using quantitative methods to pick growth and value stocks. The series consists of 2 indices which have a proven 10 year record of generating superior returns and reduced volatility for investors.
Learn more about the Thomson Reuters/Sabrient Sensible Growth Indices.
May 14th 2012
THOMSON REUTERS LAUNCHES FIRST HIGHLY-LIQUID, INVESTABLE, REAL ESTATE INDICES FOR ETF MARKET
As property markets recover, rental values continue to soar and investors look for higher yielding assets, Thomson Reuters and Global Property Research have launched a series of regional real estate benchmarks.
The TR/GPR indices provide unrivalled liquid exposure to global property markets. The index series covers the top 100 global property investment securities and has been designed specifically for use in investment products such as Exchange Traded Funds. Learn more about the Thomson Reuters/Global Property Research real estate indices.
february 1st 2012
THOMSON REUTERS AND CRESCENT WEALTH LAUNCH ISLAMIC INVESTMENT INDEX FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET
Thomson Reuters and Crescent Wealth, the Australian Islamic investment manager, have launched an Islamic investment index for Australia to help open up this resource-rich market to Islamic finance investors globally.
The Thomson Reuters Crescent Wealth Islamic Australia Index is the first benchmark index to screen ASX-listed companies for compliance with Islamic investment principles using Thomson Reuters unique research-based approach. It is a powerful new tool for Islamic investors to geographically diversify their portfolios while increasing investment opportunities into an important G-20 country like Australia. Learn more.
October 12th 2011
THOMSON REUTERS LAUNCHES MALAYSIAN FIXED INCOME AND SUKUK INDICES WITH LOCAL BOND PRICING AGENCY
Thomson Reuters Indices has teamed up with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia (BPAM) to offer the most comprehensive and representative suite of Malaysian Fixed Income benchmarks available. Learn more.
SEPTEMBER 29th 2011
ANNOUNCING THE TRBC 2012 SECTOR CLASSIFICATION CONSULTATION
For the first time since 2008, Thomson Reuters Business Classification is changing to meet new market and business needs. Prior to the release of the next version of TRBC we are inviting market participants to provide feedback. Learn more.
JUNE 27th 2011
THOMSON REUTERS INDICES ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF ISLAMIC INDICES
June 27th Thomson Reuters teams up with IdealRatings and adds a global Islamic benchmark offering to its suite of indices. Quarterly, research based screening differentiates the indices from other Islamic benchmarks and ensures the most recent Shariah compliance status of constituents.
The new Thomson Reuters IdealRatings suite covers countries, regions and sectors of interest to Islamic finance. Learn more about our Islamic Indices.
March/April 2011
NEW PERIPHERAL EUROZONE BANKS INDEX LAUNCHED
Building on the success of the Peripheral Eurozone Countries Index, the unique broad market benchmark for the Eurozone countries with the highest government deficit levels, Thomson Reuters Indices has launched the Peripheral Eurozone Banks index. This index tracks banks listed in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain and is available in Real Time on Thomson Reuters Eikon and Reuters 3000 Xtra, and with End of Day updates on Datastream. The index is also available off-the-desktop and for licensing.
March/April 2011
TRBC JUDGED AS BEST SECTOR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR SECTOR INDICES AND EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS BY JOURNAL OF INDEXES
This Journal of Indexes article compares TRBC with its two closest competitors by looking at the size and depth of their securities universes; the structure of their sorting methodologies; and inter-sector correlation analysis. The authors conclude that TRBC stands out as the most useful sector classification system for building sector indices and ultimately for ETF investors.
Press Releases
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18 Sept 2012 - Thomson Reuters Launches New Global Islamic Index to Monitor Sukuk Market
14 May 2012 - Thomson Reuters Launches First Highly-Liquid, Investable, Real Estate Indices For ETF Market
12 Oct 2011 - Thomson Reuters, Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Launch Co-Branded Sukuk and Bond Indices
4 Jul 2011 - Thomson Reuters and IdealRatings launch Islamic Indices
20 Jul 2010 - Zellner Award Recipients Announced by ASA Business & Economics Statistics Section
15 Mar 2010 - Thomson Reuters Launches 7500 New Indices
14 Jan 2010 - New Wildcatters Index Tracks Performance of Small-cap and Mid-cap Energy Stocks
14 Sep 2009 - Thomson Reuters Launches Global and Comprehensive Range of Indices
Thomson Reuters Indices allow for both high level and detailed analysis of different countries, regions and sectors.
Analyze the impact of market moving news
From natural disasters to sovereign debt and political protests, global news events can affect multiple countries and sectors. Use Thomson Reuters Indices to better understand the impact of these market moving events. Download the fact sheet. 359K
Monitor Popular Investment Themes
Use Thomson Reuters Indices to capture opportunities arising from global political, environmental, technological and socio-economic change. Analyze the sectors which are most likely to be affected by these changes and evaluate investment possibilities. Download the fact sheet. 736K
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